5. Performance - Read

Turning to Read performance, Figure 6 shows a significantly higher transfer rate (as you'd expect) of almost 2,400,000 kBytes/sec! Things really can move when you're reading from cache, eh?

Figure 6: Read performance - NDAS mode
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Figure 7 zooms in on the Read non-cached area, showing a slightly higher 8800 kBytes/sec after cache effects are completely eliminated by using a file size of 1 GByte

Figure 7: Read performance detail - NDAS mode
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